Although news outlets continually bring reports about new features on social sites such as Facebook and Twitter, there is actually a lot happening with social aggregation sites as well. To catch us up to speed, Brent Csutoras gave WebProNews a rundown of the latest news from both Digg and StumbleUpon.
File sharing website Mininova has removed all links to illegal torrent downloads, to comply with a court order. According to the BBC, the Netherlands-based company was issued with a court order three months ago, demanding that its website remove all links to copyright-protected material. The Mininova site now only hosts links to 'featured content,' which consists solely of licensed files that are...
Many bloggers and analysts argue that search engine ranking and SEO are starting to become less and less relevant in gaining traffic as social media rises. Sites such as Digg, Twitter and Stumbleupon are sworn by in the blogosphere for getting huge spikes in traffic when a post goes viral. So if you own a blog [...]
Google launched Rich Snippets on its UK search results today. In May, Google launched Rich Snippets. So far only been available on Google .com and on certain very limited UK results (Facebook and LinkedIn profile results) but they have been spotted today on Google.co.uk in the links to sites such as Yelp.com and UrbanSpoon. Google uses information contained in HTML with Microformats or RDFa to produce...
A new privacy directive has given consumers the power to manage cookies when visiting websites. The Internet Advising Bureau (IAB) reports that the new ePrivacy Directive contained within the European Telecom Package has addressed and eliminated the legal uncertainty surrounding cookies, by providing a secure legal ground for cookie management tools to be included in browsers and other applications....
Title: Taking Karre, Divinity Warriors, Book Four Author: Michelle M. Pillow Publisher: Ellora's Cave Genre: Romantica/Erotica/Fantasy Publication Date: August 2009 ISBN: 9781419923456 Length: Novel Format: eBook Reviewer: WitchGiggles Alternative-Read.com Ever had so many aliases that you don't know who you are ? In her bid to take out Divinity in payback for ruining her life, Karre became one of...
BloggyBits is a social media widget for your Blogger or Wordpress blog. It lets you display updates from multiple social media sites including Twitter, Digg, Flickr and StumbleUpon. You might also like: Schedule Facebook Messages and Status Updates For Later With Sendible Display Twitter Updates In Orkut Timelimes: Aggregate Your News, Mail and Social Updates How to Create a Blog Widget For Twitter...
Rupert Murdoch's threat to pull content from Google in the hope of securing a paid content model for its news provision services has gained the attention of two more US publishers, both of whom are threatening to follow his lead. MediaNews Group, who publish 54 daily newspapers in 11 states, and AH Belo have said that they will consider pulling their content after News Corp's announcement that it...
Google has broadened its search ad formats to include videos and maps as well as images and price comparison features for specific products. Google explains that the new ad formats have been introduced to offer a more effective means of receiving information from sponsored search results. Susan Wojcicki at the Official Google Blog states: "To provide a better search ads experience, we've been...
Get your mind out of the gutter. This isn't about distributing your crude weekend photography, it's about being able to upload content outside the parameters of basic community categories. While we all know that YouTube is for video, Redux is for entertainment and LinkedIn is for career-related content, it's hard to tell where we should be sharing our important but uncategorizable content. Nincha...
Microsoft have adopted a new advertising approach for their operating system Windows 7. Hoping to appeal to the common man - or indeed the Family Guy - Microsoft have managed to 'sneak' a little brand placement into the popular animated TV show. The episode (sourced from Crunchgear) on which the above clip appeared was immediately followed by an advert for Windows 7. Windows 7's appearance on Family...
Articles at Zeit Online and TechCrunch Europe carry details that suggest federal and state officials believe Google Analytics to be illegal, and are considering imposing fines against companies which use the service to collect and collate data about their website visitors' usage without the visitor's express consent. Approximately 13 per cent of German website publishers - those using the .de TLD -...
Great news for all those who use StumbleUpon - a web content discovery service with upto 5.7 million members. Recently, StumbleUpon announced that they are making some changes on how profiles are setup and also have lifted the limit of adding 200 friends to your friends list. Now you can add countless friends and can get more exposure by using this great service.
According to news by BBC, Business 2.0 magazine has named StumbleUpon the number one social media company. It is a net discovery site founded in the year 2001, has member strength of more than 2 million registered users. The Web 2.0 traffic concept has been growing in strength after this evidence of traffic generation and more business companies are trying to shift business from the earlier model